From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: ncurses/termcap, just won't clear the screen?
21 May 1997 10:55:38 -0700
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Original-To: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
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Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> 
> kunglao AT prairienet DOT org wrote:
> > 
> > I've just rebuilt termcap & ncurses, that went fine.  But now I'm 
> > trying to run some of the test programs that ncurses has.  And it 
> > appears that it just cannot erase the screen.  The curses is set to 
> > the top of the window, but all the text is still there.  I've tried a 
> > few different things for my TERM env variable, linux, ansi, pc-ansi, 
> > vt100,  etc.  They all behaved the same.
> 
> Is your /etc/termcap right?

With the new /etc/termcap from b18, I do an "export TERM=linux"
in bash, and then hit a control-l to clear.

Under Windows NT, the right thing happens.  Under Windows 95, however
I see the behavior kunglao AT prairienet DOT org reports where the
prompt is moved but the old text doesn't get erased.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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